2017 Queen's Young Leader Towett Ngetich from Kenya

Towett Ngetich

Kenya

Africa

Health and disability

2017

Towett was presented with a Queen’s Young Leaders Award in 2017 for his work to tackle the problem of counterfeit medicinal drugs. He founded Daktari Thabiti (“reliable doctor”) which helps suppliers and consumers to identify the legitimacy of medicines by scanning their batch numbers.